If you have decided not to upgrade your Windows XP to Windows 7 in the near future and would like to stay back with Windows XP, but on the other hand would like to experience and get a feel on how Windows 7 looks like, here is a good news for you. By having ViGlance installed, you can now enjoy Windows 7 super bar feature on your existing Windows XP based computer without the need of upgrading.

ViGlance is feeware and once you have gotten it installed, all windows related processes will be grouped together and this has made the taskbar cleaner and more organized. Based on the fact that people tends to respond better to pictures compare with text, so you will notice that the taskbar icons size have been changed to 48X48, which is bigger as compared to the normal icon size (16×16) as displayed in Windows XP/Vista. Besides, the ugly start button will be replaced with a small and efficient start orb which is having the same appearance as in Windows Vista, but the difference here is it has been enhanced with a smooth fade transitional rollover effect. Another major difference that you will notice is when you mouse over on each group of application appeared in taskbar, the respective applications’ information will be displayed via the glide animation and it can be dynamically resized according to the size of the available information. By having this 7 style transition effects, all information of each applications can be viewed at first glance by moving between each group of applications on the Super Bar.

ViGlance is definitely a great tool for you to experience on how Windows 7 behaves at the Super Bar. One minor defect you might need to take note is, in order for 48×48 icons to function properly, you need to get the taskbar unlock, double its size by extending it upwards and then lock it again. If you want to rollback to Windows XP feature, just go to Add or Remove Programs to uninstall it.

Directing customers to visit your office or business site is crucial in marketing your products or services. It might significantly affect your business if the directions to your business place is unclear or too vague. To assist businessmen particularly to post clearer directions to their business place in their websites, Google has rolled out a new service, Directions Gadget, which allows users to add customized Google Maps directions to their websites.

With Google’s Directions Gadget, users can save a lot of hassle in updating and preparing the directions to their sites. What they need to do is to use the service, pre-fill the destination (one or multiple addresses) at the “To” field, set the language and embed the gadget to their site.

Visitors or customers can thence fill in the “From” field and get the directions indicated in the Google Map. Users can view or print out the direction for easy reference.

For avoidance of doubt, the service also provides a list of suggestions for a more exact address in the event visitors enter a vague address.Google’s Directions Gadget offers 23 languages in the service. It is pretty user-friendly for both webmasters and end users. End users which are customers or visitors in this context can enter either the ZIP code, address keyword or latitude-longitude coordinates to get the correct directions.